Articles by Seth McLaughlin

Donald Trump crushed his opponents Tuesday night en route to a major victory in New York's Republican presidential primary, scoring a needed boost after a string of setbacks and putting himself back in the driver's seat as the campaign nears the final stretch.
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April 19, 2016

Donald Trump could be leaving some winnable delegates on the table by not making a bigger push to lock down supporters in Pennsylvania, whose unique primary leaves most of the state's delegates free to vote their conscience at the Republican National Convention in July.
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April 18, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio has fought to take the delegates he won to the Republican National Convention in July, leaving him in a position to be a power broker or even, if everything falls into place, to make another run at the top of the party's presidential ticket.
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April 7, 2016

Donald Trump insists the new voters he's brought into the Republican primary are just the tip of what he'll be able to do if he's the nominee in November, vowing to put states in play that the GOP hasn't won in a generation.
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April 5, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz was projected to win the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, delivering a stunning blow to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and resetting the race as it heads east later this month.
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April 5, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz enters Tuesday's Wisconsin primary looking to reset the GOP presidential race, with his team insisting a win there will prove he's consolidating the Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump.
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April 4, 2016

John Kasich insists he gives the GOP its best chance to win the White House in November, and the polls say the Ohio governor is right. The problem for Mr. Kasich: Republican voters don't seem to care.
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March 30, 2016

The GOP presidential race is turning into a trench warfare fight for every last delegate, and nowhere will that be more true than in Pennsylvania, where the delegates themselves are elected directly by voters in the primary.
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March 27, 2016

Donald Trump's delegates to the Republican nominating convention are proving to be exceptionally loyal, defying predictions by some analysts that they may flip their support to another candidate if Mr. Trump doesn't win on the first ballot in Cleveland this summer.
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March 23, 2016

Trailing badly in the GOP nomination race, Gov. John Kasich is looking past his deficit on the scoreboard and instead envisioning sinking the game-winner in overtime at the Republican National Convention this summer.
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March 16, 2016

Donald Trump warned Wednesday against trying to award the Republican presidential nomination to another candidate if he heads into the convention with the most accumulated delegates -- which has become the stated strategy of many who are trying to stop him.
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March 16, 2016

The odds of anyone other than business Donald Trump winning enough delegates to capture the Republican presidential nomination before the national convention are shrinking fast.
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March 16, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said that Sen. Marco Rubio's exit from the GOP presidential race has set up a two-man race between himself and businessman Donald Trump for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
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March 16, 2016

Donald Trump dominated Florida's GOP primary Tuesday, knocking Sen. Marco Rubio out of the race -- but Gov. John Kasich claimed victory in Ohio, splitting the two top prizes on the board and making a contested convention ever more likely.
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March 15, 2016

Donald Trump was the projected winner of Florida's GOP primary Tuesday, dealing a likely fatal blow to Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential hopes -- but Mr. Trump was struggling elsewhere on the map, as other candidates were giving him a tough fight.
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March 15, 2016